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Subject: Re: piece mobility?

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 16:41:57 01/08/04

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Tord,

>This sounds really strange.  If I understand Ed's pages correctly, he doesn't
>do what the rest of us calls lazy eval at all.  What he describes as lazy
>eval is what is more commonly known as futility pruning in the qsearch (i.e.
>not searching captures.

This link discusses Rebel's Lazy eval:

http://members.home.nl/matador/chess840.htm#LAZY%20EVAL

If I read it correctly this is definitely a lazy eval, although not the normal
method since Revel uses the true eval from the previous ply to calculate the
margin.  I don't think this is futility pruning which Ed discusses at a
different section

Steve



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